The ESV Church History Study Bible 

Thank you, brother... have missed your reviews of late, so glad to see this pop up tonight.

Your font comparisons are so well done; every year this part of your reviews becomes increasingly important to me. I realize this is Crossway, but one might think a Church History bible ought to have a somewhat larger number of books.

So glad to see this and hear your review. I won the CSB ancient faith study Bible and found it most enjoyable. But alas I discovered I was a majority text guy by means of Pastor Matthew Everhard this past fall- and your translation reviews in the past confirmed my belief.

I'm a simple man. I see a R. Grant Jones video about a bible I would never buy and I watch the whole thing.

Good to see new videos : )

Thanks for the review! Nice job as usual...

Thanks for your review. I was looking forward to it :)

Glad to see your New review, I am waiting for your review of the Thomas Nelson King King James version deuterocanonical/apocrypha next month I think you said, I'm hoping for good-sized dark print and please God no red ink in the print I mean! Thanks brother 😊🔥🤟⛪👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🇺🇸👨‍🦽

I’ve never wanted an ESV, but with these notes, I’m seriously considering getting it

Thank you for the review!

This seems like a really nice Bible for those interested in it. I knew that a Crossways ESV probably wouldn't be what I'd like, which I don't think yet exists: I'd love to read a Bible like the Ancient Faith Bibles that is based on the LXX and helps explain how Christian theology developed and shows which passages were most important for shaping (early?) doctrine. I think such a Bible would be an incredible resource for many Christian faith communities/denominations. I'd even like this study Bible more if it focused on the history of later Christian thought, through the protestant reformation and afterwards through major schisms, with opposing viewpoints placed head to head. This ESV Bible just seems like a bunch of the other ESV study Bibles with just some quotes as footnotes instead of explaining historical context or translation choices. The pages the creeds are on seem oddly blank; I would've either increased the font size for the creeds or put more than one creed per page. The essays are laughably short. (I did like the section of an essay you highlighted about traditions.) For such an aesthetically pleasing book with such a promising study topic it really doesn't seem to have much to offer. I dislike feeling so negatively towards this book, but it looks like it would be a great Bible to give to confirmation students while they're going through classes, learning about the roots of their faith tradition and why their denomination believes as it does, but it doesn't even seem to be good for that. It makes me wonder who this Bible's primary audience is supposed to be: it's not for Christians who are looking to better understand where many Christian ideas came from; it's not for students learning about Christian ideas and movements through the years; is it perhaps only for loving family members looking for a "giftable" Bible to give to younger people who are growing in their faith? Sorry for venting about how mediocre I think this book is. I am deeply appreciative of your work and how throughly you have reviewed this Bible -- it's exceptionally clear that I would've been very disappointed had I purchased it based on my assumptions of what it could be.

R, another super video review.

The Ancient Faith study Bible, seems to be a better version of this for me. I'm more interested in the earlyish church fathers, not later prominent names.

I believe this is a good companion piece with the CSB Ancient Faith Study Bible.

The dustcover shown at 6:33 advertises a "full concordance", but if there are only 14,000 context lines, I wonder that can possibly mean. The KJV has 783,000 words, and the ESV should be about the same, so the coverage is about 1.8%.

An excellent review! I have already have this in my Amazon basket but checking other sources for quicker delivery to the UK as currently seems to be shipping only from the USA. Currently reading through the whole ESV so this will compliment that part of my study. Switching to the KJV later next month. Thank you for putting this together so appreciate the work and in-depth none bias reviews you do here ) ++ p.s where do you get those wonderful Maps we can see on your table when you do your videos ? any links ? thanks again Dino

36:04 what Luther said. The Bible is alive

Excellent review! Pity they didn’t publish the Church History Bible with the Deuterocanonical/Apocrypha.

I love how there are certain things omitted , like church history doesn’t go all they way back to Jesus?

Nice bible

What do you use as your table cover? The map diagram thingy?

Hi Mr. Grant, I would like to know if we are only basing on the scholarly content, would you still advising getting a copy of the ESV Study Bible even know I have a CSB Study Bible already?

I wanted to recommend a book, it is a scholarly study of NT from an Oxford Muslim Philosopher The New Testament in Muslim Eyes: Paul's Letter to the Galatians by Shabbir Akhtar The Quran with Christian Commentary, by Gordon Nickel appears to be a similar academic work. Both Akhtar and Nickel have reviewed these books of each other.

Grant Jones, just wondering how often you you read the Bible or related material? I’m guessing several hours a week?

Forgive me for asking but do you actually read all the bibles you have bought and have you used the study material in all of those bibles? If you have, has reading them change your theology or understanding of faith?

Is this Bible like the CSB Ancient Faith Study Bible, with notes from Apostolic/Church fathers?

Is this the one that jumps from the apostles time to Augustine.. then jumps from Augustine to the reformation? Some biased stuff 🤦🏻‍♂️

You need to ready more about the the two crazies that dug up this minority text. The children of these men have some interesting stories to tell about “experiences” they’ve had. These books are printed in Europe not sold in US. The stories sound a lot like the ones of these maker of false religions. And in these experiences somehow they all were told the same thing. The devil himself can be transformed into and angel of light.